https://mises.org/ en Mon, 20 Jul 26 07:00:00 -0500 https://mises.org/power-market/argentina-and-its-eternal-vocation-mediocrity Mon, 20 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Alejandro A. Tagliavini https://mises.org/power-market/argentina-and-its-eternal-vocation-mediocrity https://mises.org/mises-wire/alan-greenspans-deceitful-legacy Willie Sutton was a famous bank robber. The late Alan Greenspan used banks and the monetary system to take infinitely more money from Americans than Sutton ever stole. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/alan-greenspans-deceitful-legacy https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/why-mises-university-matters The map of Austrian economics in Europe—Madrid, Prague, Vilnius—traces back to a summer program in Auburn, Alabama. Sun, 19 Jul 2026 07:10:00 CDT Jörg Guido Hülsmann https://mises.org/podcasts/mises-u-2026/why-mises-university-matters https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/major-party-realignment Mark Thornton examines the rise of democratic socialism, the political realignment it may trigger, and why young Americans are embracing bad solutions to real problems. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/major-party-realignment https://mises.org/mises-wire/sanctuary-cities-leave-your-ambition-and-entrepreneurial-skills-border While many immigrants bring entrepreneurial skills, they often settle in US cities governed by leftists who are hostile to private enterprise. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Angelo Monaco https://mises.org/mises-wire/sanctuary-cities-leave-your-ambition-and-entrepreneurial-skills-border https://mises.org/mises-wire/constant-tocqueville-and-acton-enlightenment-liberalism-and-religion The growing power of the centralized state loomed as the central problem for liberalism in the early nineteenth century, and the works of these three writers are a response to it. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Ralph Raico https://mises.org/mises-wire/constant-tocqueville-and-acton-enlightenment-liberalism-and-religion https://mises.org/mises-wire/ai-ominous-opportunity Do we embrace artificial intelligence, or do we fear it? Both, actually. Sat, 18 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Clifford F. Thies, John Elrick https://mises.org/mises-wire/ai-ominous-opportunity https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/myth-democratic-socialism The problem with socialism was never the wrong people in charge. It was socialism. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 04:15:01 CDT Murray N. Rothbard https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/myth-democratic-socialism https://mises.org/mises-wire/evolution-politics-civic-virtue-realpolitik While people claim they want the "virtuous" state with citizens to match, what we really get is realpolitik, whether we want it or not. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/mises-wire/evolution-politics-civic-virtue-realpolitik https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/evolution-politics-civic-virtue-realpolitik While people claim they want the "virtuous" state with citizens to match, what we really get is realpolitik, whether we want it or not. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/evolution-politics-civic-virtue-realpolitik https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/keith-knights-top-ten-problems-democratic-socialism Bob sits down with the managing editor of the Libertarian Institute, Keith Knight, to sample arguments from his recent four-hour video cataloguing sixty-four problems with democratic socialism. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:00:00 CDT Robert P. Murphy, Keith Knight https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/keith-knights-top-ten-problems-democratic-socialism https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/small-america-first In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon revisits the argument that the American republic has grown far too big, and that a smaller America would also be a freer America. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/small-america-first https://mises.org/mises-wire/economic-foundations-and-christianity-are-compatible Joshua Mawhorter reviews Dr. Shawn Ritenour’s Foundations of Economics: A Christian View. Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/mises-wire/economic-foundations-and-christianity-are-compatible https://mises.org/power-market/congressional-ratification-president-trumps-corporatism Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Ron Paul https://mises.org/power-market/congressional-ratification-president-trumps-corporatism https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/graham-mcconnell-and-americas-late-soviet-politics On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Tho, and Connor discuss the death of Lindsey Graham, the questions around Mitch McConnell, and provide a preview of next week's Mises University. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Tho Bishop, Ryan McMaken, Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/graham-mcconnell-and-americas-late-soviet-politics https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/predatory-logic-state While we speak highly of “rule of law” and the “limited state,” the unfortunate truth is that the modern state is a law unto itself. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 01:05:02 CDT Agustín Toptschij https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/predatory-logic-state https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/most-overvalued-stock-market-1927 Is the U.S. stock market more overvalued than at any point in the last 150 years—except for 1927? Mark Thornton believes today's extreme valuations, rising leverage, and mounting fiscal pressures are creating the conditions for a major market reckoning. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:30:09 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/most-overvalued-stock-market-1927 https://mises.org/mises-wire/predatory-logic-state While we speak highly of “rule of law” and the “limited state,” the unfortunate truth is that the modern state is a law unto itself. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Agustín Toptschij https://mises.org/mises-wire/predatory-logic-state https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/rothbards-definition-government-organized-crime-microsoft-antitrust-case Murray Rothbard saw government as a predatory, criminal entity and the Microsoft lawsuit of 1998 proved to be a classic example of government organized crime in action. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 09:01:24 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/rothbards-definition-government-organized-crime-microsoft-antitrust-case https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/vendee-french-war-national-liberation To deny local self-determination to the Catholic Vendean rebels was to support the imperialist impulse, just as the opponents of the American revolutionaries embraced imperialism over freedom. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:24:02 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/vendee-french-war-national-liberation https://mises.org/power-market/populism-will-not-solve-housing-affordability-crisis-markets-will Americans are increasingly unable to afford housing. For many young people, the “American Dream” seems out of reach. In moments of economic frustration, populists on both the Left and Right rush to identify villains. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Ruel Domi https://mises.org/power-market/populism-will-not-solve-housing-affordability-crisis-markets-will https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbards-definition-government-organized-crime-microsoft-antitrust-case Murray Rothbard saw government as a predatory, criminal entity and the Microsoft lawsuit of 1998 proved to be a classic example of government organized crime in action. Thu, 16 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/mises-wire/rothbards-definition-government-organized-crime-microsoft-antitrust-case https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/fifa-world-cup-price-controls-ticket-prices World Cup tickets are a hot commodity with prices through the roof. Naturally, governments want to do what governments always do unsuccessfully: levy price controls. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:50:25 CDT Josh Bozzick https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/fifa-world-cup-price-controls-ticket-prices https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/foucault-panopticism-and-carceral-society-rise-surveillance-state The standard narrative is that policing and imprisonment are necessary tools to keep the public safe from criminals. But it also would seem that these things are useful tools for a state that wishes to dominate its citizens. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:06:57 CDT Antony Sammeroff https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/foucault-panopticism-and-carceral-society-rise-surveillance-state https://mises.org/mises-wire/vendee-french-war-national-liberation To deny local self-determination to the Catholic Vendean rebels was to support the imperialist impulse, just as the opponents of the American revolutionaries embraced imperialism over freedom. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/vendee-french-war-national-liberation https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/brokenomics-austrian-economics-jonathan-newman Lotus Eaters podcast host Dan Tubb speaks with Dr. Jonathan Newman about Austrian Economics. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:30:20 CDT Jonathan Newman https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/brokenomics-austrian-economics-jonathan-newman https://mises.org/mises-wire/foucault-panopticism-and-carceral-society-rise-surveillance-state The standard narrative is that policing and imprisonment are necessary tools to keep the public safe from criminals. But it also would seem that these things are useful tools for a state that wishes to dominate its citizens. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Antony Sammeroff https://mises.org/mises-wire/foucault-panopticism-and-carceral-society-rise-surveillance-state https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/why-healthcare-system-broken-speaker-panel Ryan McMaken, Timothy Terrell, Charles Sauer, and Robert Murphy take questions from the audience on healthcare economics, free market alternatives, and the prospects for reform. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:15:26 CDT Ryan McMaken, Timothy D. Terrell, Charles Sauer, Robert P. Murphy, Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/why-healthcare-system-broken-speaker-panel https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/americas-gerontocracy-goes-deeper-aging-politicians America’s elderly political class is only the most visible symptom. The deeper problem is a government built to transfer wealth from younger Americans to a caste of older, wealthier generations. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 09:31:02 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/americas-gerontocracy-goes-deeper-aging-politicians https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/what-conservatives-get-wrong-about-french-revolution If avoiding a repeat of the excesses of the French revolution is an important goal, we need a thorough understanding of its causes. Edmund Burke and his conservative followers don't offer this. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 08:02:02 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/what-conservatives-get-wrong-about-french-revolution https://mises.org/mises-wire/americas-gerontocracy-goes-deeper-aging-politicians America’s elderly political class is only the most visible symptom. The deeper problem is a government built to transfer wealth from younger Americans to a caste of older, wealthier generations. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/mises-wire/americas-gerontocracy-goes-deeper-aging-politicians https://mises.org/notes-margin/why-movement-conservatisms-excommunications-have-always-been-about-foreign-policy For conservative leaders like Buckley, what really matters is that you support the American imperial warfare state. The stuff about freedom is window dressing. Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT David Brady, Jr. https://mises.org/notes-margin/why-movement-conservatisms-excommunications-have-always-been-about-foreign-policy https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-conservatives-get-wrong-about-french-revolution If avoiding a repeat of the excesses of the French revolution is an important goal, we need a thorough understanding of its causes. Edmund Burke and his conservative followers don't offer this. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/mises-wire/what-conservatives-get-wrong-about-french-revolution https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/how-fix-economics-healthcare Bob Murphy makes the case that American healthcare's dysfunction is not a market failure but a pricing failure manufactured by government. He closes with practical reform proposals designed to restore market signals without waiting for Washington. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:00:26 CDT Robert P. Murphy https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/how-fix-economics-healthcare https://mises.org/mises-wire/fifa-world-cup-price-controls-ticket-prices World Cup tickets are a hot commodity with prices through the roof. Naturally, governments want to do what governments always do unsuccessfully: levy price controls. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Josh Bozzick https://mises.org/mises-wire/fifa-world-cup-price-controls-ticket-prices https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/why-do-so-many-intellectuals-hate-free-markets It's not the starving artist who resents capitalism—it's the millionaire columnist. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 12:28:03 CDT Ralph Raico https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/why-do-so-many-intellectuals-hate-free-markets https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-perspective-lolcows Lolcows, part of the world of internet personalities, would seem well beyond the world of economic analysis. Yet, much of what happens can be explained by the paradigm of Austrian economics. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Philippe Lemieux https://mises.org/mises-wire/austrian-perspective-lolcows https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/uks-monstrous-equality-act Great Britain’s “Equality Act” is not simply a civil rights bill gone too far. It is, as Murray Rothbard would have put it, a “monstrous” piece of legislation that looks to create a social and economic equality that could never exist. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 10:18:58 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/uks-monstrous-equality-act https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/why-healthcare-system-broken Charles Sauer profiles four healthcare entrepreneurs who built functioning free-market alternatives to the broken hospital system before turning to Washington to explain why Capitol Hill is not the solution, walking through the government-created distortions that sustain the status quo. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:15:26 CDT Charles Sauer https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/why-healthcare-system-broken https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/poland-now-its-still-paper-tiger Since abandoning socialism 30 years ago, Poland’s economy has grown, as one would expect with a market economy. However, there could be more economic freedom there that easily would translate into a booming economy. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 08:12:12 CDT Jeremy E. Powell https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/poland-now-its-still-paper-tiger https://mises.org/power-market/pikachus-pokemon-price-information There are several interesting economic lessons to learn from Pokémon cards. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Kevin Van Elswyk https://mises.org/power-market/pikachus-pokemon-price-information https://mises.org/mises-wire/uks-monstrous-equality-act Great Britain’s “Equality Act” is not simply a civil rights bill gone too far. It is, as Murray Rothbard would have put it, a “monstrous” piece of legislation that looks to create a social and economic equality that could never exist. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Wanjiru Njoya https://mises.org/mises-wire/uks-monstrous-equality-act https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/austrian-perspective-lolcows Lolcows, part of the world of internet personalities, would seem well beyond the world of economic analysis. Yet, much of what happens can be explained by the paradigm of Austrian economics. Tue, 14 Jul 2026 03:43:26 CDT Philippe Lemieux https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/austrian-perspective-lolcows https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/rise-state-controlled-medical-care Timothy Terrell traces the historical origins of the American healthcare cartel, beginning with Ronald Hamowy's 1979 article documenting how the AMA used state licensing laws not to protect patients but to restrict physician supply and raise incomes. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 06:02:26 CDT Timothy D. Terrell https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/rise-state-controlled-medical-care https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/private-property-public-purpose Contrary to age-old prejudices, the wealth of the rich is not the cause of the poverty of the poor, but helps to alleviate that poverty. No matter whether it is their intention or not, almost anything that the rich can legally do tends to help the poor. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:07:03 CDT Henry Hazlitt https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-essays/private-property-public-purpose https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/carl-menger-crown-prince-rudolf-and-marginal-revolution-never-was Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics, served as the tutor for Austrian-Hungary’s Crown Prince Rudolf, the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph. But Rudolph’s untimely death in 1889 would end up changing the ruling dynamics of pre-World War I Central Europe. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:34:57 CDT Justin M. Ptak https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/carl-menger-crown-prince-rudolf-and-marginal-revolution-never-was https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-keynesian-theory-insufficient-demand Keynesians claim that recessions occur because of a lack of consumer demand. However, demand comes from what we produce, so a growing economy needs more production. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Frank Shostak https://mises.org/mises-wire/fallacy-keynesian-theory-insufficient-demand https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/nationalization-credit The essay added later to the collection: a critique of proposals to nationalize banking and credit, weighing bureaucratic against profit management and warning of credit overexpansion and immobilization. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 10:21:34 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/nationalization-credit https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/theory-price-controls Mises’s focused analysis of price controls: why fixing prices produces shortages and demands for still more controls, and what that reveals for the theory of social organization as a whole. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:38:25 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/theory-price-controls https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/anti-marxism How German “anti-Marxism,” including national (anti-Marxian) socialism, absorbed the very Marxian ideas it claimed to oppose, with Werner Sombart as the case study of a thinker Marxist and anti-Marxist by turns. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:01:20 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/anti-marxism https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/social-liberalism A critique of the German “Socialists of the Chair” and their social policy—by way of the Methodenstreit, the clash of control versus economic law, and Max Weber—showing how “social liberalism” abandons liberalism itself. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:58:27 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/social-liberalism https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/does-free-market-naturally-lead-price-deflation Bob uses U.S. economic history, centering on the greenback era, to work through some subtle but important distinctions in Austrian monetary theory. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:30:00 CDT Robert P. Murphy https://mises.org/podcasts/human-action-podcast/does-free-market-naturally-lead-price-deflation https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/hampered-market-economy Mises examines the doctrine of a “hampered” or regulated market as a distinct third system and answers Schmalenbach’s thesis that free enterprise was giving way to a bound economy. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:28:02 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/hampered-market-economy https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/interventionism The central essay: interventionism as a supposed economic system, the real nature of intervention, and how price ceilings, minimum wages, and similar measures defeat their own aims—leaving only a choice between the free market and socialism. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 08:09:11 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/interventionism https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/preface Mises’s 1929 preface, written in Vienna for the original German edition, presenting the essays as a sustained critique of interventionism, then the reigning economic policy across Europe and America. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:59:59 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/preface https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/introduction Hans F. Sennholz, the translator, lays out Mises’s target—the belief in a “third system” of a hampered market economy standing between capitalism and socialism—and why that middle way cannot hold. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:57:05 CDT Hans F. Sennholz https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/introduction https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/foreword Margit von Mises introduces the collection, recalling that these essays date from the 1920s and noting that the final essay was added to the later German edition. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:53:02 CDT Margit von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/critique-interventionism/foreword https://mises.org/power-market/latest-model-cars-big-brother-watching-you What was once a symbol of American freedom and independence, automobiles are rapidly transforming into a high-tech cage that watches their every move and can override their decisions at will. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Alejandro A. Tagliavini https://mises.org/power-market/latest-model-cars-big-brother-watching-you https://mises.org/power-market/friedrich-hayek-knowledge-problem-and-case-iran Hayek’s contribution lies not only in defending markets, but in explaining why centralized economic control is epistemologically constrained. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Amir Azadarmaki https://mises.org/power-market/friedrich-hayek-knowledge-problem-and-case-iran https://mises.org/power-market/solving-relationship-gaps-mathematics-and-austrian-economics Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Conner McEleney https://mises.org/power-market/solving-relationship-gaps-mathematics-and-austrian-economics https://mises.org/mises-wire/dont-blame-billionaires-change-incentives Socialists claim that US billionaires are “running the country” by influencing politicians with their money, and the “solution” is to confiscate most of their wealth. But their wealth is not the problem; predatory government is. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT George Ford Smith https://mises.org/mises-wire/dont-blame-billionaires-change-incentives https://mises.org/notes-margin/javier-mileis-aura-fades-argentina-braces-peronist-resurgence " By July 2026, the libertarian president’s approval rating has plummeted to 35.5 percent, with disapproval surging to 63 percent..." Mon, 13 Jul 2026 04:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/javier-mileis-aura-fades-argentina-braces-peronist-resurgence https://mises.org/notes-margin/sen-lindsey-graham-dead One of the US Senate's most committed warmongers died over the weekend. Mon, 13 Jul 2026 03:00:00 CDT https://mises.org/notes-margin/sen-lindsey-graham-dead https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/get-out-fiat-currency-monetary-reset-warning Dr. Mark Thornton warns that the monetary system may be moving toward greater digital control, persistent inflation, and a potential monetary reset. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/individual-interview/get-out-fiat-currency-monetary-reset-warning https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/dupes-war-mises-statism-propaganda-and-foreign-conflict Mark Thornton warns that war propaganda turns citizens into dupes. Ludwig von Mises’s critique of statism explains why foreign conflicts keep returning. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 06:00:00 CDT Mark Thornton https://mises.org/podcasts/minor-issues/dupes-war-mises-statism-propaganda-and-foreign-conflict https://mises.org/mises-wire/carl-menger-crown-prince-rudolf-and-marginal-revolution-never-was Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian School of economics, served as the tutor for Austrian-Hungary’s Crown Prince Rudolf, the only son of Emperor Franz Joseph. But Rudolph’s untimely death in 1889 would end up changing the ruling dynamics of pre-World War I Central Europe. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Justin M. Ptak https://mises.org/mises-wire/carl-menger-crown-prince-rudolf-and-marginal-revolution-never-was https://mises.org/mises-wire/poland-now-its-still-paper-tiger Since abandoning socialism 30 years ago, Poland’s economy has grown, as one would expect with a market economy. However, there could be more economic freedom there that easily would translate into a booming economy. Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Jeremy E. Powell https://mises.org/mises-wire/poland-now-its-still-paper-tiger https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/praxeology-within-physics-social-sciences Austrian economics does not share the same methodology as we see in the economics mainstream. The Austrian emphasis on praxeology provides a better explanation of economic events than does the mathematically-bound mainstream. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 03:04:34 CDT Per Bylund https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/praxeology-within-physics-social-sciences https://mises.org/mises-wire/praxeology-within-physics-social-sciences Austrian economics does not share the same methodology as we see in the economics mainstream. The Austrian emphasis on praxeology provides a better explanation of economic events than does the mathematically-bound mainstream. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Per Bylund https://mises.org/mises-wire/praxeology-within-physics-social-sciences https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/three-myths-american-healthcare Ryan McMaken dismantles three persistent myths of American healthcare before tracing the origins of social insurance to Bismarck's deliberate scheme to bind citizens to the state "by the chains of gratitude" and closing with Mises' 1944 prediction that a population half-dependent on government healthcare would never vote to dismantle it. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 12:02:26 CDT Ryan McMaken https://mises.org/podcasts/why-healthcare-system-broken-mises-circle-new-hampshire/three-myths-american-healthcare https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/old-fogies-dont-die-soon-enough In this week’s Friday Philosophy, Dr. David Gordon takes apart Yale law professor Samuel Moyn’s screed against people living longer than Moyn thinks appropriate. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT David Gordon https://mises.org/friday-philosophy/old-fogies-dont-die-soon-enough https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/depression-1784-revolutionary-inflation-and-post-revolution-depression Intervention begets intervention. This was the case following the American Revolution, as the consequences of inflation, credit expansion, and wartime disruptions set up for the depression of 1784 in peacetime. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 10:55:09 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/depression-1784-revolutionary-inflation-and-post-revolution-depression https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/how-adam-smith-helped-create-modern-unionism While Adam Smith is celebrated in some circles as the “Father of Free-Market Economics” (Austrians would disagree), his writings on the “disadvantages” of the worker are misleading. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:37:02 CDT Thiago V. S. Coelho https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/how-adam-smith-helped-create-modern-unionism https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/cronyism-and-regulatory-capture As AI becomes a more important and visible part of our lives, the movement to regulate it also grows. The standard regulation narratives—that government regulates things in the name of the public interest—clearly do not fit the facts. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 08:16:56 CDT Henry Lever https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/cronyism-and-regulatory-capture https://mises.org/power-market/market-miracle The free market facilitates mutually-beneficial exchanges that create wealth where it would not otherwise exist, but the market miracle can only exist under certain conditions. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 07:00:00 CDT Soham Patil https://mises.org/power-market/market-miracle https://mises.org/mises-wire/depression-1784-revolutionary-inflation-and-post-revolution-depression Intervention begets intervention. This was the case following the American Revolution, as the consequences of inflation, credit expansion, and wartime disruptions set up for the depression of 1784 in peacetime. Fri, 10 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Joshua Mawhorter https://mises.org/mises-wire/depression-1784-revolutionary-inflation-and-post-revolution-depression https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/justice-thomass-rothbardian-phase-and-hamiltonian-vance On this episode of Power and Market, Ryan, Connor, and Tho discuss the recent SCOTUS decisions as well as JD Vance's recent praise for the economic views of Alexander Hamilton. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Tho Bishop, Ryan McMaken, Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/power-and-market/justice-thomass-rothbardian-phase-and-hamiltonian-vance https://mises.org/power-market/why-your-bigger-paycheck-feels-less-money You earn more than your parents did, maybe significantly more. Yet, somehow, the life they built—the house, the retirement account, the sense of getting ahead—feels further away than ever. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 01:00:00 CDT Tom Wilson https://mises.org/power-market/why-your-bigger-paycheck-feels-less-money https://mises.org/mises-wire/books-students-t-shirt-you Support Mises University 2026 by helping students take home Austrian classics and get the special edition 40th anniversary t-shirt. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:20:26 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/mises-wire/books-students-t-shirt-you https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-adam-smith-helped-create-modern-unionism While Adam Smith is celebrated in some circles as the “Father of Free-Market Economics” (Austrians would disagree), his writings on the “disadvantages” of the worker are misleading. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Thiago V. S. Coelho https://mises.org/mises-wire/how-adam-smith-helped-create-modern-unionism https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/fireworks-regime-what-july-4th-actually-celebrates Every July 4th, politicians climb podiums, flags wave, a hundred million dollars’ worth of fireworks scatter across the sky, and somewhere between the hot dogs and the stadium-rock anthems, it becomes easy to confuse the theater of freedom with the substance of it. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:42:59 CDT Michael Matulef https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/fireworks-regime-what-july-4th-actually-celebrates https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/country-having-its-socialist-moment Democratic socialist candidates are becoming a serious political challenge in Democratic Party primaries. Have Americans suddenly become convinced by the arguments in favor of command economies, or is there something deeper going on? Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:30:50 CDT Connor O'Keeffe https://mises.org/podcasts/guns-and-butter/country-having-its-socialist-moment https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/senate-isnt-his-oyster-after-all-graham-platners-socialist-vessel-turned-out-be-leaky The media tells us that the rape allegations that brought down Graham Platner’s Senate campaign just came to light. Actually, the media had those allegations for months, but sat on them to protect Platner’s campaign. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:18:09 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/senate-isnt-his-oyster-after-all-graham-platners-socialist-vessel-turned-out-be-leaky https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/war-system "The main aim of American foreign policy is to impose the will of our ruling elite on the rest of the world." Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:13:57 CDT Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. https://mises.org/podcasts/audio-mises-wire/war-system https://mises.org/power-market/now-accepting-applications-2026-ron-paul-scholars-seminar Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT Mises Institute https://mises.org/power-market/now-accepting-applications-2026-ron-paul-scholars-seminar https://mises.org/mises-wire/senate-isnt-his-oyster-after-all-graham-platners-socialist-vessel-turned-out-be-leaky The media tells us that the rape allegations that brought down Graham Platner’s Senate campaign just came to light. Actually, the media had those allegations for months, but sat on them to protect Platner’s campaign. Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:00:00 CDT William L. Anderson https://mises.org/mises-wire/senate-isnt-his-oyster-after-all-graham-platners-socialist-vessel-turned-out-be-leaky https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/foreign-investments-and-spirit-capitalism How the Industrial Revolution and foreign investment made some nations rich while others stayed poor, closing with Mises’s defense of capitalism. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:33:23 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/foreign-investments-and-spirit-capitalism https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/profit-and-loss-private-property-and-achievements-capitalism The crucial difference between physical “capital goods” and “capital” as an accounting concept, and how profit and loss, private property, and economic calculation steer production toward what consumers actually want. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 04:22:21 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/profit-and-loss-private-property-and-achievements-capitalism https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/money-interest-and-business-cycle The two great confusions about money and interest, from Aristotle’s “money cannot beget money” to modern credit expansion, and how monetary manipulation by banks and governments produces inflation and the business cycle. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:55:29 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/money-interest-and-business-cycle https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/making-modern-civilization-savings-investment-and-economic-calculation The first economics lecture: how saving, capital goods, and investment build modern prosperity—illustrated by the fisherman who forgoes today’s catch to make nets—and why capital must be guided by economic calculation. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:20:21 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/making-modern-civilization-savings-investment-and-economic-calculation https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/marxism-and-manipulation-man Why Marxism spread so widely while going long unchallenged, how its slogans slipped into everyday speech, and the Marxian urge to “organize” society by treating individuals as raw material to be arranged. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 03:08:21 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/marxism-and-manipulation-man https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/nationalism-socialism-and-violent-revolution How Marxism claims that truth itself is attainable only in a classless society, and how the cult of “action” and violence—by way of Georges Sorel and French syndicalism—fed into Leninism, fascism, and Nazi racial doctrine. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:54:15 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/nationalism-socialism-and-violent-revolution https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/individualism-and-industrial-revolution The liberal ideal of the individual and rational, welfare-serving law, and a defense of the Industrial Revolution against the myth that early capitalism degraded the common man. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:29:06 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/individualism-and-industrial-revolution https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/class-conflict-and-revolutionary-socialism Marx’s doctrine of class and class conflict: the claim that class interests determine how people think and set the classes in irreconcilable conflict—with Mises noting that Marx never actually defined what a class is. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:19:06 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/class-conflict-and-revolutionary-socialism https://mises.org/mises-wire/fireworks-regime-what-july-4th-actually-celebrates Every July 4th, politicians climb podiums, flags wave, a hundred million dollars’ worth of fireworks scatter across the sky, and somewhere between the hot dogs and the stadium-rock anthems, it becomes easy to confuse the theater of freedom with the substance of it. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:00:00 CDT Michael Matulef https://mises.org/mises-wire/fireworks-regime-what-july-4th-actually-celebrates https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/mind-materialism-and-fate-man Mises opens the philosophical half of the course by arguing that Marx’s materialism—the claim that a person’s economic class shapes his very ideas and logic—dominates modern thought, and he begins to dismantle it. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:59:52 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/mind-materialism-and-fate-man https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/introduction-marxism-unmasked Richard M. Ebeling recalls the world of 1952, when socialism seemed ascendant everywhere, summarizes Marx’s system of historical materialism and class struggle, and introduces Mises as one of its most formidable critics. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 01:52:10 CDT Richard M. Ebeling https://mises.org/podcasts/marxism-unmasked-delusion-destruction/introduction-marxism-unmasked https://mises.org/mises-wire/cronyism-and-regulatory-capture As AI becomes a more important and visible part of our lives, the movement to regulate it also grows. The standard regulation narratives—that government regulates things in the name of the public interest—clearly do not fit the facts. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 11:00:00 CDT Henry Lever https://mises.org/mises-wire/cronyism-and-regulatory-capture https://mises.org/podcasts/liberalism-classical-tradition/appendix-2-term-liberalism Mises defends his use of the word: true liberalism is defined by private ownership of the means of production, and he explains why he keeps the name despite its distorted modern usage. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 10:06:50 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/liberalism-classical-tradition/appendix-2-term-liberalism https://mises.org/podcasts/liberalism-classical-tradition/appendix-1-literature-liberalism Mises's guided reading list of the essential works of liberal thought, from Hume, Smith, and Bentham onward, for readers who want to study the tradition in depth. Wed, 08 Jul 2026 09:59:45 CDT Ludwig von Mises https://mises.org/podcasts/liberalism-classical-tradition/appendix-1-literature-liberalism